How Does Cosmetic Surgery Affect Society

In today’s society, appearance plays a vital role. Individuals place a great deal of emphasis on physical beauty because of how the media portrays it. Actors, models, and musicians uphold a youthful appearance through cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is a procedure that alters or enhances an individuals’ appearance as in which the individual desires. Cosmetic surgery has not only increased tremendously over the past decade, but it has become a norm to society. Cosmetic surgery takes on many forms, and can be branched out into various categories. Let’s view the different types of procedures and look at them from the positive and negative aspects. Getting a Botox is a good alternative for middle age individuals who desire to maintain …show more content…
For example, an individual will have to constantly receive Botox treatments every so often to maintain the youthful look or the wrinkles and aging will resurface the face. It is also very expensive to keep up on the maintenance of a Botox. Even though a Botox prevents aging, it is very dangerous because a toxin is being injected into the body which can not only cause bruising and scarring but can also lead to death if the doctor uses the wrong toxins or medicines on the patient. It also damages the nervous system which can lead to health problems in the near future.
Laser hair removal is a very fast and safe procedure. It only takes a fraction of a second to treat many hairs, and a few hours to do an individuals’ entire body. Not only do individuals receive the benefit of having hair removed permanently, but the individual’s skin will be protected and undamaged at the same time.
Laser hair removal does remove hair permanently, but on average it takes from three to seven sessions to do which is very costly. After the treatments, there is a variety of side effects that may appear such as redness, scarring, blisters, and your skin looking and feeling